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This figure illustrating coarticulation in consonant production shows the schematic spectrograms for /di/ and /du/. The second formant for the vowel /i/ has much higher frequency than that for the vowel /u/. The transition from /d/ to the second formant of the vowel has a high and rising profile for /di/ and a low and declining profile for /du/. However, one perceives the /d/ as sounding the same in the two syllables. This is an example of:
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